Below is a video link created by the Huffington Post in which a reporter goes around Capital Hill asking Republicans “Do you believe that President Barack Obama was born in the U.S.?” A fair amount of them including Congressman Boustany from Lafayette questioned the validity of his citizenship. However, Boustany would later retract his original statement on KPEL and clarify that he does believe that President Obama is a United States citizen.
Conspiracy theories have plagued every modern President and apparently Obama's Presidency won't be an exception. Bill Clinton had the Vince Foster "murder." George W. Bush had “9/11 Truth” and now Obama has the “Birthers”.
Birthers have two main theories: some are people who believe that Obama was not born in the United States. Another theory is that Obama was born in the United states but is not a citizen because his father was not a citizen.
My opinion is that this whole movement is some right-wing crackpot idea cooked up to help generate some negative publicity for the President. I wonder what exactly the people who believe in this movement hope to accomplish? The only thing believing in this Birthers theory would accomplish is ant-patriotism and destroy the barley stabalized economy that we are finally starting to piece back together.
There is no evidence to support this theory. More than a year ago, the editors at FactCheck.org, a nonpartisan fact-checking group at the University of Pennsylvania, tracked down Obama's original birth certificate, and posted nine photographs of it. “FactCheck.org staffers have now seen, touched, examined and photographed the original birth certificate,” the editors wrote. “We conclude that it meets all of the requirements from the State Department for proving U.S. citizenship. Claims that the document lacks a raised seal or a signature are false.” top Republicans including House Minority Leader John Boehner won't give the theory a second thought.
So for people wondering, why the republicans seam to be weak and powerless in stopping President Obama from passing national health care reform this video might clear things up.
